Re: [exim] Moving mail providers

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Author: Dave Lugo
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Moving mail providers
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Vincent Danen wrote:
>
> I have a quick question; I have no idea how easy or hard this might be
> but I haven't found anything via google.
>
> For the last few years I've been running my own exim server but now I'm
> moving a bunch of domains to one of those domain hosting outfits (they
> use exim too, which is nice).
>
> The problem is I have some users who use imap, so I have mail of theirs
> sitting here in maildirs. How can I "reinject" those mails to the local
> exim and have it deliver to the new server? I know I need to remove
> them from the list of domains to deliver for locally, so if I can
> reinject them, they'll get delivered to the remote site. Is there a way
> I can just toss those messages to exim? I tried using "cat [file] |
> mail user@???" and it sends the file, but the entire file is the
> message contents, not the actual message itself.
>
> It's ok if the message shows up as new again on the new host, but other
> than that it needs to remain largely intact.
>
> Thanks for any pointers. Sorry if this is a pretty dumb question.
>


Can't you just use any of the imap copy/move utilities that are on
the net?

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